Book Information: Leader, the

Great Britain, 1937. Edward VIII and his new bride, Wallis, are preparing for their coronation; Winston Churchill is a prisoner on the Isle of Man; and Prime Minister Oswald Mosley - the Leader, as he is known - consults Adolf Hitler on a "more permanent" solution to the "Jewish problem". In exchange for full bellies, the British population has yielded to a regime of terror, enforced by Mosley's secret police.

James Armstrong, a hero of the Great War, is on the run, wanted by Mosley for organising a resistance movement to the government. The Leader is determined to see Armstrong hang. But Armstrong is every bit as clever as the evil men on his tail...